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Sunday, August 30, 2015

It's Good to Be Clean

Wash your hands. Use soap.

~~Mom

Saturday's the perfect day for Whole Foods. I ate my way through the product samples while gathering a few items. My best buy for the quick trip was good soap, 3 for $6. I selected varying shades of white and fragrances: the ivory bar for Lavender, cream for Ginger Pear, and pure white for Clean Linen.

I'll use them with great pleasure.

Meanwhile, my sisters of perpetual charity are gathering singly-wrapped bars of soap for Lutheran World Relief. Last year we added 450 pounds of bar soap to a major shipment of health supplies sent overseas to refugee camps. A bar of soap (when water is available) is a great personal boon to miserable conditions.

Just the experience of being without hot water during a power outage is always enough to glory in the feel of a hot shower and soap again. And many in this world never have that. Bless you for doing what you can to alleviate that.